Shoe-tongue pad



E. A. GUINZBURG.

SHOE TONGUE PAD.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14. 1919.

"Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

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EDWIN A. GUINZBURG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOE-TONGUE PAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

Application filed November 14, 1919. Serial No. 337,997.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN A. GUINZBURG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Tongue Pads, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates particularly to a device applicable to the tongues on shoes and particularly to the tongues usually found on laced shoes, and one of the objects of this invention is to provide a device of this character readily applicable to a shoe tongue, which will aid in providing proper fitting of the shoe and effecting a proper fit of the shoe, particularly at the instep and ankle.

Another object of this invention is to provide for a. laced shoe, a means applicable thereto for preventing the eyelets in the shoes from pressing into the foot and cansing discomfort when the shoe is laced tightly.

With these objects, and other objects which may hereinafter appear, in view, I have devised the particular arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a shoe provided with my improved shoe tongue pad, parts being broken away to disclose the construction Fig. 2 is a front face view of the tongue )ad' 1 Fig. 3 is a front face view of one of the blanks utilized in forming the tongue pad, two of these blanks being required for each P Fig. 4: is a sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the ar rows; and

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on th line 5-5 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Throughout the various views of the drawings, similar reference characters designate similar parts.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, as disclosed in the accompanying drawing, 1 indicates a shoe of the conventional form, having the ordinary tongue 2. To this tongue 2 is applied the improved tongue pad indicated at 3.

In fitting the shoe properly to the foot and ankle, the improved tongue pad aids in removing looscness and affords a proper fit of the shoe.

In the preferred form of the device, two plies of material a and 5 are shown.

The outer ply 4 is of the same general dimensions as the shoe-tongue 2 against the inner side of which the ply 4 is adapted to be secured. The inner ply 5 is shorter and narrower than the outer ply, and both plies are made of felt or any other soft, pliable material, so that the pad will readily conform to the contour of the foot when placed in position and the shoe laced.

In Fig. 3 is shown a face view of one of the blanks utilized to form the, pad. Two of these blanks are used to produce the finished tongue pad disclosed in Fig. 2.

One half 6 of the blank is of a shape c011- forming to one of the longitudinal halves of the outer ply 4L of the finished pad illustrated in Fig. 2. The other half 7 of the blank is smaller and forms one of the longitudinal halves of the small or inner flap or ply 5 of the tongue pad when the same is completed.

To produce the completed pad, two blanks, each of which is of the form illustrated in Fig. 3, are placed on top of one another and stitched together by a substantially central longitudinal line of stitching 9. The two blanks are then folded away from one a11- other on their longitudinal lines 10, so that each half 6 of each of the two blanks forms a longitudinal half of the ply 4 and likewise each half 7 of each of the two blanks forms a longitudinal half of the smaller or inner ply 5 of the tongue pad.

The outer edge of the ply 4: is reinforced by the overstitching 11 or in any suitable way.

The tongue pad may be attached to the shoe tongue by stitching or in any other desired manner, or may be substituted for or built into the shoe in place of the ordinary tongue.

From the foregoing, it is obvious that my invention is not to be restricted to the exact embodiment shown, but is broad enough to cover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. An article of the class described, comtudinal line, and folded away from one anof stitching and the two pieces of material other on the line of said stitching to form folded longitudinally and in opposite direc- 10 two plies, one of said plies being of less area tions to form an inner and outer ply for the than the other. pad.

5 2. An article of the class described, com- Signed at the city, county and State of prising a shoe tongue pad formed from two New York, this 10th day of November, 1919. pieces of material of like shape, said pieces being joined together by a longitudinal line EDWIN A. GUINZBURG. 

